By Zoya Brumberg Picture the home (or homes) where you grew up. When was your neighborhood built? Did most people in your neighborhood own or rent their homes? What did your neighbors look like? Were there a lot of immigrants or your neighborhood? A visible transient population? Was there a lot of green space? What […]
Who Makes Cents? A History of Capitalism Podcast
How often do you stop and wonder how paper money and checking accounts became a part of our daily life? Can you pinpoint the moment in time when investing in the stock market became an activity available to ordinary citizens? How and why did the United States government become involved in funding railroads, paved roads, […]
Remembering Lincoln
Do your great-great-great-grandparents remember where they were on the evening of April 14, 1865? Though this may not be a question most of us ask ourselves, it is one that might be answered by exploring the digital archives of the Remembering Lincoln project. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln left a mark not only on […]